Isaie frechette



(No Model.)

I. FREOHETTE. HAT PIN GUIDE 0R RETAINER.

Patented Nov. 3, 18 96.

attozuu UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAIE FREOI-IETTE, OF MONTREAL, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO HENRI BEAUDRY AND JOSEPH BEAUDRY, OF SAME PLACE.

.HAT-PIN GUIDE OR RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,627, dated November 3, 1896.

Application filed June 2, 1896. Serial No. 594,043. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAIE FREGHETTE, of the city of Montreal, in the district of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guides or Retainers for Hat-Pins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has for its object to produce a simple and edective device adapted for use more particularly with ladies bonnets and hats or other head-gear, and which will effectively hold the bonnet or hat in place, besides avoiding the frequent annoyance caused by losing the customary hat-pin.

The invention may be said to consist in a guide for a hat-pin permanently secured to the hat and comprising a straight tubular portion, an open bearing-surface, and an inclined portion adapted to direct the pin to pass first in a straight line beneath the hair and then bend same laterally, so as to press the hair gripped tightly against a portion of the guide.

For full comprehension, however, of the invention reference must be had to the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which like symbols indicate corresponding parts, and wherein Figure 1 is an inside View of the front portion of a hat, showing the device in place; Fig. 2, a cross-section of same on line 2 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the device; Fig. 4, a View of the blank from which the device may be formed.

In carrying out my invention I prefer to strike out and use a blank of thin metal of the contour shown in Fig. 4 and characterized by a straight end portion, curved central portion, and oblique end portion,with an opening a at the point of junction of the straight end portion with the central curved portion and a notch b intervening such central portion and the oblique end portion, which latter is also extended laterally on one side to afiord an attaching-section c. The straight end portion is rolled into the form of a tube 61. The central curved portion has its edges turned up and a depression orgroove e formed lengthwise of its middle surface, while the oblique end portion is bent to form a guide or upon reaching the incline f and being pushed farther will be bent to bear tightly against the grooved surface 6, thus firmly gripping the hair and holding the hat in place.

The blank is preferably provided with a small projection, as indicated at m, which is adapted to be bent across the end of the incline f to prevent the pin projecting beyond same. As a means also of preventing any chances of losing the pin it may be permanently connected with the device by forming an enlargement upon its end large enough to prevent withdrawal from the tube 01, such enlargement being formed in any desired manner, but preferably by flattening or increased in thickness in any way at the point, asshown at 'n, in which case the pin will be set in place first and the tube (1 then rolled around same.

What I claim is as follows:

1. A guide for a hatpin comprising a straight tubular portion, an open bearing-surface and an inclined portion, for the purpose set forth.

2. A guide for a hat pin comprising a straight end portion, an inclined end portion, and an intermediate curved portion presenting an open bearing-surface, substantially as shown and described.

3. A guide for a hat pin comprising a straight tubular portion, an open bearing-sun face and an inclined portion, the outer end of the inclined portion being closed, for the purpose set forth.

Montreal, May 29, 1896.

ISA'I'E FRECHETTE.

In presence of FRED. J. SEARS, R. A. O. RIMBER. 

